"I've always had only one opponent, and I want to win in the fairest way possible. As for the enemy, isn't it a challenge to give both sides a restrictive condition? ”

Wang Chen, who was extremely confident in his generous words, nodded his head constantly and said, "Your self-confidence has always impressed me. ”

However, Dafang shook his head this time and said, "This is not self-confidence, but self-knowledge." ”

Wang Chen couldn't help but slander in his heart: yes, this is even more awesome, the professor is a professor in the end, which is equivalent to saying that except for Fang Qingtian, everyone including Lin Lang is not worth mentioning.

Dafang looked at the other party's face, and knew what this kid was thinking, and didn't correct him, just smiled: "Self-confidence is the origin of self-knowledge, first self-confidence, and then self-knowledge." ”

"Why don't I feel right? Don't people say that self-confidence comes from self-knowledge? Wang Chen immediately raised his doubts, he knew that Dafang had always welcomed this kind of question.

Sure enough, Wang Chen saw a generous smile, appreciating his question, and then saw Dafang shaking his head and asking, "Then do you know why we have self-knowledge?" ”

Wang Chen shook his head, psychology was too complicated for him.

Dafang asked in a discussion-like tone: "As I just said, people will always improve, and the means of our progress are usually through our own experience. So, how can 'experience' play a better role in the process of our progress? Or to put it another way, how to make the 'experience' more impressive? ”

Wang Chen shook his head again.

"I think 'trying' is a very effective means, just as the progress of science can never be separated from experiments, and experimentation or experimentation is the difference between scientists and visionaries. So it's the attempt that enables us to move forward, and it is precisely our own progress that comes from self-knowledge, so 'trying' gives us self-knowledge. Are you right? ”

Wang Chen nodded.

Dafang smiled and said, "So, what drove us to try?" ”

"Inquisitive?" Wang Chen said uncertainly.

"Yes, but not quite. We can think about it from another angle, and what makes us intellectually curious? Dafang asked again.

The word "have" in Dafang's words once again made Wang Chen feel confused, he couldn't find the answer, so he had to shake his head again and look at Dafang with a seeking gaze.

Dafang began to elaborate calmly, saying: "In what you can understand, driven by the two most fundamental desires of 'survival' and 'reproduction', we have a thirst for knowledge. ”

Even so, Wang Chen still didn't understand.

"It's very simple, when Ru Mao drinks blood and is full of dangers, 'knowledge' can more effectively protect oneself and avoid danger, and it is also 'knowledge' that can make our genes look better, at least it seems."

Now Wang Chen understood, but he still couldn't figure out what this had to do with self-confidence, and he looked at Dafang with an inquisitive eye again.

"Although the two fundamental desires of 'survival' and 'reproduction' are the source of almost all life behaviors, they also have priority in their own right, after all, if a life cannot maintain the state of 'living', then 'reproduction' will naturally be impossible to talk about. So our first instinct is to 'survive'. ”

Wang Chen nodded, because it was obvious.

"So, here's the problem"

Dafang looked at Wang Chen's eyes, and finally said the key: "What is supporting us to 'live' or 'live'?" ”

This question seems easy, almost any adult will have their own answer, and they don't even need to think about it when answering, but Wang Chen knows that it is not so simple, because the premise of this question has been deduced to the most fundamental level, so this question is actually asking, under the condition of excluding all external factors including 'reproduction' and 'reproduction', why do people support themselves and not want to end their lives?

Wang Chen, who was thinking for a long time, seemed to suddenly realize something, but he felt a little incredible, and he couldn't connect the two, so he asked in an uncertain tone, "Is it confidence?" ”

Dafang looked at Wang Chen and nodded slightly: "Yes, it's confidence." ”

"Self-confidence is innate from the moment all life is born. So if you want to find the talents that all life has, then self-confidence must be one of them. ”

"I really don't understand." Wang Chen couldn't figure out the truth.

Dafang smiled again and said, "This can be confirmed by a very simple logical reasoning. For life, one of the necessary conditions for survival is to draw energy from the outside world to ensure the necessary consumption to sustain life, and the basic means of drawing energy is to eat. Eating, which is very simple, is to eat what you can eat, including plants to absorb nutrients, breathe air, etc., can be regarded as eating. ”

"And then the question arises, what made the first creature ever able to eat eat what it was looking at when it ate for the first time?"

"Appetite, survival instinct." Wang Chen replied immediately.

Dafang smiled and asked: "Since it is driven by survival instinct, how can it conclude that the things in front of it can be eaten?" Instead of eating it and dying instantly, thus fundamentally violating one's own survival instincts? ”

Wang Chen was dumbfounded again, thinking repeatedly in his heart, yes, since it's the first time, and he has no experience with fart, how can he know if he can eat it?

Soon he carefully used what he could summarize, and then tried to organize it into a systematic language, asking: "People die and birds face the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years?" ”

Dafang did not comment on this, but elaborated: "When a creature has the desire to eat, what drives it to eat is actually the kind of confidence that makes it feel that it can eat, swallow, digest, and absorb the 'food' in front of it." ”

"The kind of self-confidence that can solve all problems, can overcome all difficulties, can eat everything that can be eaten, blind, arrogant, and groundless, for no reason, and is incomparable but does not even realize itself, confident that they can survive forever, extraordinary self-confidence."

"Therefore, it is self-confidence that makes it start the first 'attempt' to eat or absorb, and if it can survive this 'attempt', then it must be a great progress, from ignorance to knowledge, and thus there is, real self-knowledge." Dafang said lightly.

Wang Chen felt that he could not keep up with the pace of the professor, so he asked a question that he thought he should be able to understand.

"And what about the toddlers? You say that self-confidence is innate, but those newborn one-two-year-old, two-year-old, two- and three-year-olds also have self-confidence? Aren't they also instinctively learning? Is this also self-confidence? I don't think children even have a complete personality, and they don't even know what self-confidence and unconfidence are, right? Wang Chen was very puzzled by this.

Dafang laughed again: "Hehehe, in fact, your own words have already answered your own questions." ”

Wang Chen fell into the clouds and fog again.

"I don't know what self-confidence and unconfidence are, if I interpret it from another angle, then will it be because, in fact, I have been confident to the extreme in my subconscious or instinct, so I don't understand or tolerate 'lack of confidence', and I don't know anything about it?"

Wang Chen was shocked.

He thought in his heart: This can really be explained, all people and even all creatures are born with confidence and are ready to live, and all negative emotions, including lack of confidence, are due to the influence of external factors in the process of personality formation.

In this way, "man's original nature is inherently good" is the truth, and from an objective point of view, the phrase "man's original nature is inherently evil" is a purer truth, because all emotions, even the root of intelligence, only come from one point, that is, "external factors", so to abandon all external factors, and leave the food necessary for survival instincts, isn't it just a species, "possession"?

Dafang seemed to guess the other party's thoughts, and said to Wang Chen: "At the moment of birth, all life is pure, regardless of good and evil, from the moment of birth, all life has the confidence, reason and excuse to live. ”

After Dafang, as he has done countless times before, once again proved his incomparable correctness.

As the gray grandson, Wang Chen, as he has done countless times before, once again, admires Dafang.

But compared with the past, this time there is still a little bit of difference, and with admiration in Wang Chen's heart, there are also some other emotions.

That's, like every junior, because of the "innate self-confidence" that arises from the hope, even the desire, a desire to be able to surpass the elders, a competitive spirit.

"Professor, is it wrong to say that self-confidence comes from self-knowledge?" Wang Chen began a bold question very rarely.

And this time, he also saw a smile in Dafang's eyes.